Vigil to remember 2 Neb. coaches killed in crash

ANSLEY, Neb. 
A Nebraska high school planned a vigil Saturday morning for a head basketball coach and an assistant coach killed when a team van returning from a camp collided with a pickup truck, also killing its driver.

The accident happened Friday along Highway 2 in rural central Nebraska near Ansley, a small town about 160 miles west of Lincoln.

The State Patrol reported 38-year-old Zane Harvey and 24-year-old Anthony Blum, coaches at Broken Bow High School, were killed. Harvey, an assistant coach, was driving the van, and Blum, the head coach, was his front-seat passenger. The truck driver, 70-year-old Albert Sherbeck, also was killed.

Eight boys were taken to hospitals, including two who were treated and released, according to the patrol.

The conditions of the other six boys haven't been released, though a message on the school's website said they were seriously injured. Good Samaritan Hospital didn't immediately respond to a call Saturday from The Associated Press seeking an update on the patients' conditions.

The Omaha World-Herald reported (
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) a ninth student who attended the basketball camp, Jaden Garey, got a ride home with his father. Brian Garey told the World-Herald he was thankful is son wasn't hurt but "you put yourself ... right in the place of those other parents."

Blum was in his first season as head coach having previously served as an assistant at another school, the paper reported. In addition to his basketball duties, Harvey was a math teacher, head boys golf coach and assistant football coach.

"It was a horrible accident. It will impact the community for a long time to come," Broken Bow Superintendent Virginia Moon said at a news conference Friday at the hospital.

The vigil was being held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the town square. Grief counselors were to be on hand at the school.

"All students are invited to come to the school for support," the school posted on its website late Friday. "This is a very difficult time for the entire Broken Bow community and our thoughts are with the families of those involved. "